None of the previous email nor this one was/is intended to a personal attack nor even a commentary on you personally, Andreas.
On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 02:49, Andreas Tille wrote: > Sorry, there is no such person like "Maintainer of Debian-Med project". ... from later in the same email... By maintaining Debian-Med meta packages I just decide which *existing* > Debian package will be included in the meta-packages dependencies. ....I'm confused about this Debian maintainer stuff.... > Ethos is a philosophical, policy a technical rule. Debian is about > technology. I disagree. There is very much a philosophical angle and it is not entirely technical based. > I would be happy if you would quote private mails I sended you about > my problems with the Torch package you builded. I told you what > was necessary to do before Torch can be uploaded IMHO. I can not > quote it publicly because there are private comments from you inside > but I gave you explicite permisson to quote in public. You have my permission, please maintain the context though. The part you are referring to here though is really your comments regarding the /opt directory. > I do not regard it as fair to do rants about my person and I definitely > have no chance to hold your package outside of Debian (and I never > would try) if you find a Debian developer who sponsors your package > (and is able to convince ftpmaster to accept it - and this is the > real hurdle ;-) ). Again, it wasn't my intent to disparage you personally. It was my impression that you were sponsoring/maintaining/assembling ????? whatever the word, the Debian Med package. In that position you made a determination that TORCH is not suitable for inclusion in Debian. If you do not support the inclusion of an application for whatever valid reason then I would hope it would be fruitless to attempt to get another Debian developer to do so. Otherwise, the process and ideals of Debian fall apart. > > > Packages *have* been contributed/distributed. > > > > Really? Is there a Debian Med distribution for download that contains > > these packages? I'm sorry, I looked as late as this afternoon and found > > no such distribution nor even any "firm list" of packages planned for > > distribution that have met Andreas requirements. Can you provide a > > link? > http://www.debian.org > Sorry, that link didn't help much. > > I have always thought this would be a wonderful project. Certainly a > > Knoppix distribution with the many applications listed at: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ would be a great tool to > > distribute at various trade shows etc. > I would love if someone would pay me full time to build such a CD. > Perhaps I should foreward this mail to my family members and they > will be convinced that I should spend even more hours on sunday to > work for Debian-Med. I never suggested that you personally do this. I took the idea from the Debian Med page and endorsed it as a good idea. Either way, I am not upset about TORCH not being included in Debian Med or as an officially blessed Debian package. It doesn't prevent me from using a Debian distribution and the wonderful APT system. Cheers, Tim
